Video: How Christopher Nolan Kept "The Dark Knight Rises" Story a Secret

"The Dark Knight Rises" was one of the most anticipated films of 2012, which made it difficult for director Christopher Nolan to keep any secrets during filming. The production would often be surrounded with paparazzi looking to snap a photo of anything that hints at the story.

To get around this, Nolan decided to film the scene outside of Wayne Manor with wrong props and unnecessary actors on set, just to confuse anyone who's attempting to piece the plot together.

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During filming, several photos of tombstones appeared online. Those tombstones were from Bruce Wayne's funeral scene at Wayne Manor. But they didn't say "Bruce Wayne" on them. Nolan made the tombstones say "Miranda Tate" to throw people off. Then during post-production, he digitally changed the name to "Bruce Wayne."

Nolan took it up a notch by also asking Christian Bale to be on set, in costume, to make it look like he was attending the funeral, rather than the funeral being for him. In fact, the director filmed Bale as part of the funeral scene just to confuse everyone. The trick worked, because even Michael Caine couldn't figure out what was going on.

But no, it's possible he had some kind of pneumatic diving tank aboard The Batwing. He could have shot himself to the bottom of Gotham Bay in a few seconds, and the water would have absorbed any and all radiation. A lead-lined pneumatic diving tank would have helped. He could have then scubaed back to Gotham.

"When a movie is advertised with a trite, hacky quote like, "It captures the pure joy and triumph of the human spirit," it makes me want to run in the opposite direction. THE BOOK THIEF may or may not be good, but whoever has been responsible for its advertising campaign needs to be fired."

Riiiiiight, but you on the other hand take fifty words to describe a contradictory scene that could have been literally rendered with one f*cking word.

@boogiel
Personally I think it was lazy editing but I think it was suppose to be an escape pod of some kind. Even if it wasn't, Nolan edited that scene to throw people off whether Batman was alive or not but then when Batman is revealed to be alive it makes no sense since, as you pointed out, they show Batman in the f*cking c*ckpit right before it blows up. So the only thing I can suggest without losing complete faith in Nolan is it was an escape pod.

Not everyone wants a movie's plot ruined for them before it even has a chance to be filmed. I think paparazzi should have a f*cking restraining order in place when it comes to sets, then the director wouldn't have to pull some asinine trick to throw them off the scent. sh*t-sucking sc*mbags...

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in Planes Trains and Automobiles
No transportation company wanted to appear inept or deficient in any way, so crews had to rent twenty miles (32 km) of railway trackage and refurbish old railway cars, construct a set that looked like an airline terminal, design a rental car company logo and uniforms, and rent 250 cars for the car rental scene.